DDR4 2400Mhz or 3000Mhz for Skylake?

[Forbiddenn]

Hi,

 

I can't decide between Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) 2400Mhz or the same with 3000Mhz. Price differnce is 30€.

Is 2400Mhz enough for Gaming and stuff or should i go for 3000Mhz?

 

Thank you!

[Curufinwe_wins]

2400 is enough, but I can't tell you if 3000 is worth it.

[Deli]

For gaming even DDR3 1600MHz is more than enough. Faster RAM speed is for e-peen.  :lol:

[Litargirio]

Speed makes no difference. Whatever is cheaper.

[Dabzz]

In a real world scenario like gaming you won't see any differences. The only place you will see a difference is in a benchmark.

//Dabzz

[airdeano]

linus has spoke of this before:

 

 

your buying on price more so than speed numbers. since the baseline of DDR4

is 2133, that be the comparative.

[Swndlr]

Id get 2666Mhz, not too much not too little but right in the middle

[Lays]

Speed makes no difference. Whatever is cheaper.

 

In a real world scenario like gaming you won't see any differences. The only place you will see a difference is in a benchmark.

//Dabzz

 

 

For gaming even DDR3 1600MHz is more than enough. Faster RAM speed is for e-peen.  :lol:

 

 

There was a thread here recently showing 2666 DDR4 was the sweet spot, and provided more performance than the lower speed kits.

 

I'm trying to find it & the link.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/424762-ddr4-memory-scaling-on-skylake-z170/

 

found it.  Considering high speed kits aren't really that much more than low speed kits, I don't see why you shouldn't get them, even if it is only a few FPS.  An extra 10-20$ for a tiny bit more performance in games, and more in benchmarks / CPU intensive stuff is worth it IMO.

[SurvivorNVL]

What @Lays said.

[DarkSmith2]

Yea, get the highest without paying much more.  

Often there are only small differences in price from 2133ram to 2800ram. I think at my local vendor the price difference is within 1euro for 16GB G.Skill kits.

 

And i personally wouldnt go corsair, i was unlucky with 4kits in a row, not working on the speeds stable or DOA.

Ive even RMA'd a kit and waited 8 weeks for a new kit and it was even worse. So im not going to buy corsair ram anymore

But could just be me being unlucky 4times in a row. (on 3 different rigs)

 

I would recommend to take a look at G.Skill Ripjaws V, which are made for skylake compatibility.

[Gwersebe]

Go with the 2400 the faster ram will only help with an apu because it uses the system memory.

[Analog]

What are the timings? If the 3000MHz kit has very loose timings then perhaps the 2400MHz kit will be faster. Buying a 3000MHz does not mean that it will necessarily run at this speed. It just means it is rated to be able to. What I mean in s that you have to keep in mind that to reach a speed of 3000MHz on the RAM, you will be overclocking the FSB frequency of your processor. In other words the processor will have to able to keep up or it will simply crash. BIOS also plays a huge role here. Check if your motherboard has native support for this kit before purchasing. I bought mine 3000MHz kit without it being certified for my ASRock X99m and it was a hassle to get everything setup right, especially with the early BIOS versions.  

 

PS: Anything faster than 2666MHz will require an FSB overclock.